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Cheshire, Connecticut

Rocky Hill, Connecticut

SVP and Head of National Accounts Treaty North America (2017-Present)SVP and Head of Specialty Casualty Treaty and Casualty Facultative (2016-2017) Set and execute market appropriate strategy. Establish, execute and monitor marketing plan. Coordinate the involvement of Global Head of Marketing and Distribution, Casualty Product Leader and Chief Underwriting Officer in marketing effort to deepen and institutionalize relationships. Manage annual planning process for all books of business. Maintain a book of the largest and most strategically significant Specialty Casualty clients. Co-Chair, Reinsurance Cyber Underwriting Committee. SVP and Senior Casualty Treaty Underwriter Regional Team (2015-2016) Wrote both Property and Casualty Treaty in this multi-line role. Managed senior level broker contact and development. Conducted ceding company prospecting for this new product. SVP Head of Casualty Facultative and Property Facultative Strategy (2013-2015)Managed ten Casualty and Property Underwriters, three Property Regional Managers, and six Underwriting Assistants. Maintained responsibility for the profitable (P&L) management of an individual risk and automatics book for Casualty Facultative. Oversaw the transition from a branch structure to regional structures. This involved development of three new regional managers. Senior Vice President and Head of Global Casualty Facultative (2009-2013) Responsible for the profitable management of a book of brokered individual risk facultative business. Introduced a variation of an existing product line which has been successfully sold in domestic United States markets. to global markets. Established an International Casualty Facultative operation in London, covering Western Europe, Australia and emerging markets in Eastern Europe and Asia.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Senior Vice President and Eastern Regional Manager (2005-2008)Directed ten Underwriters in a Region comprised of three branches, with responsibility for the profitable management of a direct book of $65 million in annual premium, comprised of individual risk and treaty business. Key contributor to Underwriting Committee, which set underwriting strategy and established tactical implementation. Vice President and Hartford Branch Manager (1996-2005)Developed, increased and profitably managed a direct book of both individual risk and direct treaty business. Assistant Vice President and Casualty Facultative Underwriter (1990-1996)Developed and underwrote a direct book of individual risk certificate business with National Companies, Specialty and Regional/Mutual companies. Underwriting Officer and Property Underwriter (1988-1990)

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English

Earned Magna Cum Laude Academic Honors

Master Of Arts - Ma, Economics